Rossetti Quotes
Created by Freya Wilson
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
Song | - plant thou no roses at my head
- haply I may remember, and haply may forget |
Remember | - remember me when i am gone away, gone far away into the distant land |
From the Antique | - it is a weary life, it is, she said
- doubly blank in a woman's lot
- I wish and I wish I were a man |
Shut Out | - iron bars
- my outcast state
- a lark has made her nest
- the door was shut |
In the Round Tower at Jhansi | - close the pistol to her brow, God forgive them this!
- I wish I could bear the pang for both |
A Birthday | - raise me a dais
- carve in it doves |
No, Thank You, John | - I never said I loved you, John
- here's friendship if you like
- I'd rather answer 'no' to fifty johns than answer 'yes' to you |
Maude Clare | - the bride was like a village maid, Maude Clare was like a queen
- he faltered in his place
- my lord gazed long on pale maude clare or ever he kissed the bride
- I'll love him till he loves me best, me best of all, Maude Clare |
Good Friday | - am I a stone and not a sheep |
Goblin Market | - rare pears
- citrons from the south
- come buy, come buy
- like a caged thing freed
- eat me, drink me
- afterwards, when both were wives
- you should not peep at goblin men |
Soeur Louise de la Miséricorde | - o, vanity of vanities, desire!
- turning my garden plot to mire |